The AMA Wants a Unicorn, Too

Contrary to the President, most doctors oppose his reforms.

Updated Nov. 6, 2009 12:01 am ET

In a cameo in the White House briefing room yesterday, President Obama trumpeted the American Medical Association's endorsement of the House health-care plan. "These are men and women who know our health-care system best and have been watching this debate closely," he said of the doctors lobby.

Actually, what they've been watching is a formula that automatically cuts Medicare reimbursements to physicians—by 21.5% next year—and have made it clear that they'll endorse virtually anything, no matter how damaging to medicine,...